15 DECEMBER 1900, page 15

Poetry.

THE ENGLISH OFFICER. THROUGH bitter nights and burning days He watched the veldt stretch bare and grim ; At home beside the cheerful blaze We wrote our views of him. We mourned......

Books.

HEROD.* THE first thing to strike a reader of Mr. Phillips's play who knows his Josephus is the simplicity with which the poet has followed the Jewish historian. Not only are......